Economy

Ed Murray made headlines for being Seattle's first openly gay mayor. He says being honest is "part of a "healing process" after years of 'the shame, the embarrassment, the guilt, the humiliation that I put myself through and that he put me through'". Read More

The index of 136 countries, which is topped by the United Arab Emirates, forms part of the biennial Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report. These results are of significant importance as tourism helps economic growth and job creation - up to 1/10th of global GDP and jobs are tourism-related, WEF noted. Read More

This new process uses - get ready for science - digital light projection, oxygen-permeable optics and programmable liquid resins. The Futurecraft 4D shoe will be the first one using Carbon's "Digital Light Synthesis" process. But it hopes that consumers will eventually be measured and tested in store to design perfectly-fitting shoes tweaked for an individual's gait, weight and type of sport. Read More

About $315 million must be invested in the tunnel before it's ready to open in 2023. During a press conference in early March this year, consensus among a majority in Parliament for the realization of the world's first full-scale ship tunnel was presented. Read More

Amtrak CEO Wick Moorman leaves a news conference, Thursday, April 6, 2017, in New York's Penn Station. Rail commuters who endured a very long week due to derailment-related track work made their way into New York's Penn Station on Friday with assurances that the repairs were finished - just in time for the weekend, but not quite in time for the morning commute. Read More

The woman was the one who called police, said the spokesman, who added that Brock had not been the subject of any previous Santa Clara police investigations. He also pleaded no-contest to a misdemeanor domestic violence charge in 2015 and was ordered to undergo counseling. This is the first incident under the 49ers' new leadership under general manager John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan . Read More

This is to find evidence that Uber really took out some designs from Google's self-driving auto project. Waymo has argued that Uber is stonewalling on its obligation to turn over files and documents that the Alphabet unit says were stolen by Levandowski when he left Waymo past year and launched his self-driving startup Otto, which was acquired by Uber for $680 million. Read More

And weight loss and nutrition company Jenny Craig told BuzzFeed News it condemns all forms of sexual assault, but refused to publicly comment on its advertising strategy. However, the actions taken by the corporate giants are a sure sign that American society has not completely succumbed to the misogyny and backwards thinking we see at the White House and on Fox News and has much to be proud of. Read More

A disappointing 98,000 jobs were added in March, the Labor Department said Friday - well below the 175,000 Wall Street was expecting. Employment increased in professional and business services and in mining, while retail trade lost jobs. Read More

More than 1,500 drivers were rejected because of a violent crime charge. 51 of the drivers were identified as registered sex offenders, and more than 300 as convicted felons, infractions that Uber and Lyft background checks may have never exposed. Read More

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd forecast on Friday its best quarterly profit in more than three years in the January-March period, beating expectations and putting it on track for record annual earnings on the back of a memory chip super-cycle. Lee, who was arrested in February, has been charged with paying almost $40 million to the now-impeached president's close friend Choi Soon-Sil, allegedly as bribes to secure policy favours. Read More

When it comes to the Analysis of a Stock, Price Target plays a vital role. There is no concrete way to calculate a price target. 24 Analysts reported that the Price Target for Barrick Gold Corporation might touch $28.86 high while the Average Price Target and Low price Target is $20.92 and $15 respectively. Read More

Sunoco announced Thursday that it is selling roughly 1,100 company-operated convenience stores to 7-Eleven Inc. for a total consideration of $3.3 billion in cash, plus fuel, merchandise and other inventories. The fuel supply agreement also requires that 7-Eleven keeps Sunoco LP branding at retail locations that are already using it. Seven & i, which operates the 7-Eleven chain of convenience stores, has been aggressively opening stores in Japan and the United States. Read More

He said , "For the first time in USA history, a seat has been stolen from one president and delivered to another in a court-packing scheme". Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., pulled an all-nighter while speaking in opposition to Gorsuch on the Senate floor. Read More

In order to reach an opinion and communicate the value and volatility of a covered security, analysts research public financial statements, listen in on conference calls and talk to managers and the customers of a company, typically in an attempt to capture the findings for a research report. Read More

The ISP privacy rules , passed in October, were "designed to benefit one group of favored companies over another group of disfavored companies", said Ajit Pai, the new FCC chairman, a Republican who opposed the regulations. Providers will also be free to sell user data directly to marketers, financial firms and other companies that mine personal data, all of whom would be free to use the data without consumers' consent. Read More

Institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. AQR Capital Management LLC boosted its stake in Delta Air Lines by 58.7% in the fourth quarter. Wetherby Asset Mgmt Incorporated accumulated 5,971 shares. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Wednesday, February 22nd. ILLEGAL ACTIVITY WARNING: This piece of content was reported by BBNS and is the property of of BBNS. Read More

This represents a huge 69-percent year-on-year increase over the deliveries it made in the first quarter of 2016. Of the cars delivered, 11,550 were its more expensive Model X, with a starting price of $85,550 and added features that can push it up to $142,000. Read More

For the next 5 years, Office Depot, Inc .is expecting Growth of 10.9% per annum, whereas in the past 5 years the growth was 22.84% per annum. (NASDAQ:ODP) shares saw a move of -1.286%. The Moving Average SMA50 is 6.99% while SMA200 is 20.39%. It would take about 2.77 days to cover all short positions. Angled up and price is moving up (or was recently) overall, angled down and price is moving down overall, moving sideways and the price is likely in a range. Read More

He pledged that the pipeline project would bring new jobs to the country as well as reduce energy costs and, perhaps most importantly, reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil. In the company's application for a presidential permit , they said the USA would see "significant employment benefits" as a result of the pipeline. "As we move forward, we'll continue to look to buy the rest of the materials we need from". Read More

They now have a United States dollars 3000 price target on the stock. The stock has "Sell" rating by Shore Capital on Thursday, March 30. The lowest target is $29 while the high is $38. The stock now shows its YTD (Year to Date) performance of 18.48 percent while its Weekly performance value is 3.16%. Tesco PLC (LON:TSCO) has risen 14.37% since August 31, 2016 and is uptrending. Read More

SC (26-11) was led by in scoring by guard P.J. Dozier, who had 17 points and guard Sindarius Thornwell , who chipped in 15 points. Rem Bakamus is a walk-on senior guard from Longview who scored one point all season for Gonzaga and didn't play in Monday night's NCAA championship game. Read More

CAAT's Adam Smith, speaking to Middle East Eye, said: "We're always being told that in order to influence the Saudi regime, we need to sell it arms and cooperate with it militarily". Shared intelligence in the fight against terrorism is said to have been valuable. Others simply argue that Britain is selling its principles for profit. Read More

It marks another milestone in the career of Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley, an Olympic gold medalist who was named one of the top 15 players in WNBA history and who recently received the chance to succeed Geno Auriemma as USA Basketball coach. Read More

A Capitol Hill aide described the cuts to The Associated Press , speaking only on condition of anonymity because the budget document is not yet public. "All of the committees, House and Senate leaderships, are working together to try to finalize the rest of the FY17 bill", Blunt said, per the BBC . Read More

Wong said the company is not anxious about a default this time because the auction house vetted the bidders, who also just so happen to have longstanding relationships with Sotheby's . "I know there was a lot of talk about the economy in China not being as positive as it was a few years ago". In 2013, Sotheby's sold the diamond for $83 million to diamond cutter Isaac Wolf, but the transaction fell through when he couldn't come up with all the money. Read More

Scott Walker said. Prior to Canada's motion, Grassland sent more than 1 million pounds of ultra-filtered milk, a protein liquid concentrate used in cheese, across the border daily and duty-free. The National Milk Producers Federation said losses for the dairy industries in Wisconsin and NY alone could run into hundreds of millions of dollars. Read More

Huawei claim that more than 20 models of Samsung's phones and tablets their technologies without permission. Samsung subsequently counter sued Huawei in China for IP infringement. Huawei itself has been battling patent infringement in the courts, with a recent ruling by the UK High Court forcing the company to pay a fraction of past and future cellular device sales to patent holding company Unwired or else face a potential ban in the UK. Read More

Iraq joined a deal late past year by OPEC and non-OPEC members to lower production for six months by 1.8 million barrels a day in order to prop up global oil prices. WTI May futures dipped to test support below $50.00 p/b before regaining this level and pushed back to the $50.45 p/b level ahead of the United States open. Read More

Anthony Ruggiero, a North Korea expert in the use of targeted financial measures who spent more than 17 years in the US government, said Trump's North Korea policy could take a harder line than that of previous administrations by bringing broader "secondary sanctions on Chinese companies, banks and individuals that are complicit in North Korea's sanctions evasion" using USA law. Read More

However, he dismissed "naysayers" this week and stressed the historic nature of the launch on what he has described as a "flight-proven" rocket. Musk said this day was 15 years in coming and that, all told, the reusability effort has cost the company at least $1 billion, which will take time to recoup. Read More

Fortunately, the Trump administration has done just what it promised. In Kentucky recently, President Dondal Trump vowed to sign an executive order that will "save our wonderful coal miners from continuing to be put out of work". Eastern coalfields would have been victimized, adding to the 68,000 jobs our industry has lost since the first major power plant regulation took effect in 2011. Read More

He then went on to through other items on the counter, including bananas and another register at the counter. The clerk scans the man's small bag of Almond M&M's, places it to the side and punches a button on the computer. Investigators report that he was only there buying a bag of M&M's. The incident dates to February 11 when a man was trying to pay at a 7-Eleven store. Read More

However, this was up 29 cents from Friday when May was still the front-month. West Texas Intermediate for May delivery slipped 3 United States cents to US$50.57 a barrel at 10.34am on the New York Mercantile Exchange. OPEC's second-largest producer, after Saudi Arabia, Iraq will proceed in parallel with exploration plans to increase its reserves by 15 billion barrels in 2018, to reach 178 billion barrels, he said. Read More

Wilson had not wanted to do this. After the war, the US led the world in "Wilsonian" internationalism, fostered by a bipartisan foreign policy at home. In October 2001, the United States and Britain began bombing in Afghanistan. Seemingly isolated incidents - such as the assassination of Austria's Archduke Ferdinand in 1914 - can lead to almost 20 million dead. Read More

Both candidates also clashed on their views regarding the status of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange , who has taken refuge on Ecuador's embassy in London since June 2012. The group refrained from saying which candidate was leading until the electoral authorities made their pronouncement. "They've crossed a line", he told supporters in a hotel in his coastal hometown of Guayaquil on Sunday, vowing to challenge the results, a complex process that could take time. Read More

HGGGQ, -19.86% Many traditional retailers find themselves with far too many stores at a time when shopping activity is migrating online. Five New Mexico locations were on the list, including two stores in Roswell, one in Albuquerque, one in Las Vegas and the only store in Alamogordo. Read More

Due to the woes at Westinghouse , Toshiba is struggling with debt that some warn might threaten its future. Those suitors include Western Digital Corp which operates a chip plant with Toshiba in Japan, Micron Technology Inc, South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc and financial investors. Read More

It's pledged to create more than 100,000 full-time, full-benefit jobs in the US over the next 18 months. In addition to Virtual Customer Service roles, Amazon says it will create more than 25,000 part-time roles over the next year across its network of centers where employees sort and consolidate customer packages. Read More

If every House Democrat opposes a possible new bill (which is likely, considering they were expected to all vote no on the first Trumpcare plan), Republicans can only afford 22 defections. Sending the health care legislation down a more conservative path doesn't make sense when it comes to getting votes in the House. Trump initially said he would move on to fulfilling other campaign promises such as a tax overhaul and infrastructure-spending package, but a new attempt at reviving the ... Read More